IcedTea replaced with OpenJDK in rawhide - requires manual removal

Greg spowd at bigpond.com
Sun Mar 16 00:42:15 UTC 2008


Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 10:18 +1100, Greg wrote:
>   
>> Chris Adams wrote:
>>     
>>> Once upon a time, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> said:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> [1] Normally this is handled by increasing the Epoch (if the packages
>>>> have the same name) or adding an Obsoletes: (if they don't). 
>>>> In this case, the packages have different names (technically
>>>> "java-1.7.0-icedtea" is the name of the package, not "java") and we
>>>> don't really want to force the OpenJDK to replace IcedTea in *all* cases
>>>> where it's installed on someone's system.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> How will that be handled for F8->F9 upgrades?
>>>   
>>>       
>> will this be the default in Fedora 9?
>>     
>
> It will be the *only* choice in F9. IcedTea has been *removed*.
>
>   
ok,,thanks




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